Blind-stop



(No Model.)

BLIND STOP. No. 357,381. Patented Feb. 8, 1887.

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INVENTOR ATTORNEYS.

,Nl'lED TATES LIZZIE TALLEY GULIOK, OF GORSIOANA, TEXAS.

BLIND-STOP.

SPECIFICATION forming part. of Letters Patent No. 357,381, dated February 8, 1887.

Application filed November 30, 1886. Serial No. 220,274. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, LIZZIE TALLEY GULicK, of Oorsicana,in the county of Navarro and State of Texas, have invented a new and Improved Blind-Clamp, ofwhich the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to window blind clamps; and it consists, essentially, of an attachment whereby the blind may be securely held to such position as may be required, all as will be hereinafter more fully described, and specifically-pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forminga part of this specification,

in which similar figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the views.

Figure 1 is a face view of a portion of a blind, representing the same as provided with my improved form of clamp, the clamp being shown in section on the broken line mrrof Fig.

- 2; and Fig. 2 is a view taken on line yyof Fig. 1.

In the drawings above referred to, 10 represents the slats of an ordinary form of blind.

11 is the slat-bar, and 12'the lower cross-bar" sitionso that the flange 3 will projectoutward' at right angles from the face of the cross-bar in a line-just below one side of the slat-bar 11. To this slat-bar 11 there is secured a corrugated strip, 7, upon the upper end of which there is formed a socket, 8, within which the slat-bar fits, and the bar 7 is passed between the flange '3 and the strip 5, the corrugated face of the strip 7 resting against the corrugated flange 3, and being held thereto by the action of the spring-retaining strip.

With such a clamp as I have described the slats 10 may be held in such position as may be required, for although, when subjected to any positive pull, the strip 7 will slip upon the face of the flange 3, said strip will be held to said flange by the action of the retainingstrip 5, which acts as a spring to hold the strip-7 and the flange 3-together with sufficient force'to resist the action of the wind.

If it is desired to lock the slats in the position in which they are shown in the drawings, the set-screw 6 is advanced so that it will bear against the face of the strip 7 and hold the parts against any possible movement, thus preventing the slats from being turned from the outside.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent I p 1. A blind-clamp consisting of a corrugated flange or plate, a springretaining strip arranged in connection therewith, a corrugated strip arranged to fit between the spring-strip and the corrugated flange, a means for con necting the corrugated plate to the blindframe, and a means for connecting the corrugated strip to the slat-bar, substantially as described.

2. The combination, with awindow-blind, of a corrugated flange or plate connected with the frame thereof, a spring-retaining strip, 5, a corrugated bar arranged between the retaining-strip and the corrugated flange, a socket formed upon the corrugated bar and adapted to receive the slat-bar, and a set screw carried by the retaining-stri p, substantially as described.

' LTZZIE TALLEY GULIGK.

Witnesses:

ALLIE JOHNSON, J. W. GULioK. 

